Genre in the Climate Debate

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2021

Genre in the Climate Debate

Edited by: Sune Auken and Christel Sunesen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9788395720499

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The volume establishes a dynamic interplay between two high-level research fields: humanistic climate studies and genre research

The volume offer an understanding of the way the structural and ideological issues in the debate over anthropogenic climate change are determined by the genres in play in the debate.

The volume continues key developments in contemporary genre research, in particular the use of genre in political campaigning and the uptake of genre information and action across genre systems.

The greatest conundrum concerning anthropogenic climate change may prove to be in the humanities and the social sciences. How is it even possible that highly exigent information for which overwhelming evidence exists does not make an immediate and strong impact on ideologies, policies, and life practices across the globe? This volume offers an intriguing and enlightening new approach to the the climate debate by taking it as a question of genre. Genres are the cultural categories that structure human understanding and communication, and genre research therefore offers a central key to unlocking the conundrum. From a genre perspective, if there is one thing the climate debate demonstrates, it is the inertia inherent in genre use. Patterns of understanding and interpretation once established seem to carry on even when they have long outlived their usefulness.

However, it is also evident that uses of genre can work to change this inertia.Genres play a vital role in human interaction, as we use them to learn, express ourselves, and to act. How individual actors utilize or manipulates genres determines to what extent knowledge of climate change spreads from the scientific community to the public, how it is debated, and to what extent it leads to positive action.　

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Sune Auken, Associate Professor, Dr.Habil., University of Copenhagen

Christel Sunesen, MA, independent editor and publisher

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	IX
1. Introduction: Genre in the Climate Debate Sune Auken Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Genre for Social Action: Transforming Worlds Through Genre Awareness and Action Amy J. Devitt Open Access Download PDF	17
3. Scientific Knowledge, Public Knowledge, and Public Policy: How Genres Form and Disrupt Knowledge for Acting about Anthropogenic Climate Change Charles Bazerman Open Access Download PDF	34
4. How The US Congress Knows and Evades Knowing About Anthropogenic Climate Change: The Record Created in Committee Hearings, 2004–2016 Charles Bazerman and Josh Kuntzman Open Access Download PDF	51
5. Genre, Uptake, and the Recontextualization of Climate Change Science by ‘Denialist’ Cultural Communities Graham Smart and Matthew Falconer Open Access Download PDF	85
6. “THINK BIG and then do absolutely NÜSCHTE”. News Satire and the Climate Debate Sune Auken and Mette Møller Open Access Download PDF	108
7. “This will all be yours – and under water”: Climate Change Depictions in Editorial Cartoons Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen and Felix Kühn Ravn Open Access Download PDF	129
8. “How to Turn Accumulated Knowledge into Action”: Uptake, Public Petitions, and the Climate Change Debate Mary Jo Reiff and Anis Bawarshi Open Access Download PDF	150
9. Rogue Rhetorical Actors: Scientists and the Social Action of Tweeting Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher and Brad Mehlenbacher Open Access Download PDF	179
10. Genre, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and the Need to Smell your Body Odor. A Personal Postscript Sune Auken Open Access Download PDF	194
About the Contributors Open Access Download PDF	198

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: NGOs, Policy makers, researchers in the climate sciences or in climate communication
Pages
- Main content: 209
Keywords: Genre research; anthropogenic climate change

eBook

Published: January 20, 2021
ISBN: 9788395720499

Hardcover

ISBN: 9788395720482